Colombian Carnival - Barranquila - photos of Barranquilla on Worldisround

Colombian Carnival - Barranquila

I just spent carnival in Baranquilla in Colombia. It was an amazing time, and the city goes pretty wild. This city is on the coast and is very hot and humid. The carnival here is rated as the second best behind those in Brazil. If you ever get a chance to go to Colombia, so so. The dangers are far far over rated and its much safer to travel generally than Peru or Brazil for example.

The country is amazing, the people extremely friendly and the women amazingly beautiful - most beautiful in the world (jaja - out of 50 countries i ... (more)

Aguila girls - I knew there was a god

Franko trying to get a date!!

Grecia. Barmaid at the Aguila bar
near 79. This is a great bar and all the staff are really cool.

Oli and I before the Carnival.

Oli

Grecia and I.

The Aguila barmaids. Change uniform
every night.

The first day of Carnival in Ave 40

One of the carnival queens.

The blond lady on the right is a famous
actress in Colombia (soap) and is now a singer as well. I think she lives in...

Float dancers

Stilt walkers

An amazing costume

This is a good photo of the costume
she is wearing.

One of the better parades.

There is a god

I like this shot.

Float dancers.

Muy bonita.

The crowds in the stands. It was non
stop party for the Colombians. Constant foam and flour fights as well. As the...

The devil.

Carlos Vives came, he is a famous
Colombian singer. The crowd went crazy.

Bloody hell jajaja

The Colombian colours.

One of the live singers.

Lifted up high!

The current Miss Colombia.

Another great costume.

The aquila girls again. Bonita!

I will only ever drink this beer from
now on.

I think this was the carnival queen.

A great costume.

The barmaids again.

This was a night function at the Prado
Hotel. The bands and singers were amazing. So were the prices for drinks and...

Oli at the Prado function.

Claudia.

This is the Sunday parade.

A cute perro (dog)

This is a great shot if i may say so
myself.

Scary!

Very scary!

Great colours.

Bonita queen.

A tranny - and a very scary one!!

First a tranny, now a granny!

This girl was the crowd favourite for
this day.

These two were amazing dancers.

Doris and Eleana in La Quinta.
This was one of the best night I have had. The bar had a guest band from...

With Steve

Us at our table before the band arrived.
Later you could hardly move there were so many people.

Dancing girls.

Doris and I.

Eleana and I.

Eleanas cousins arrived and thats when
party got really wild.

Doris and Eleana and her cousin.

The guest band.

The three of us.

Very ugly!!

And now a mask!

Eleana.

Me - scary!

The crowd. It was so packed and
every one going crazy dancing. One of the best things to do is watch...

Eleanas cousin.

The three of us.

This was the last day in Calle 84.
It was really good and IMO better than the other parades.

A very scary tranny!

Another great costume.

This was another good one.

One of the better costumes.

This was a great crowd of people
at the bar (La Cama) watching the parade. They were reall ywild with the foam...

This was just after she bished me.

Eleana came later - i was very dirty by
this time.

and we ended up at the Aguila bar -
again.

Very messed up with flour.

Eleana and Doris.

Me in Medellin

John with his GF.

This is one of the dancers from
Mangos. Shes a friend of gresgs. Amazingly hot jaja.

Greg and I. This is the first other
Aussie I have met in Colombia.

article published 03/04/2006

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Hola Colombia
Love to come here and enjoy the people of colombia and land.
— Haf29, July 30, 2006

hola
As not many sites are in English regarding Colombia is was great to see your shots as I have dreams of dancing meringue in Colombia.
— Allan Brown, May 9, 2006

:)
I am really glad you put this article about the carnival of my city, Barranquilla.. and I wanted to tell you youre welcome anytime! Thank you for sharing!
— Angelina Giovannetti, April 5, 2006

WOW
Great pictoral. Looked like you had the time of your life. Thanks for sharing.
— Sole Searchin', March 7, 2006

At first I thought "why 271 photos", then I opened the set and saw all the scenery. I always enjoy your unique perspective on traveling abroad. Keep them coming for those of us stuck at home!
— Clay Sneller, March 6, 2006

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